How to be Fashionable with a Cast on Your Foot….

It started with a whatsapp picture posted in a friends’ group with a caption that Urvashi has fractured her foot…..really…I couldn’t believe , she seemed fine and OK a couple of days back, now suddenly I get to know this….  she is an active girl with jam packed diary….well!!!…. those of you who do not know  Urvashi, to begin with she  has more visa stamps on her passport than a whole lot of us put together, she travels to 2-3 countries every month and lives out of a suitcase literally and to imagine her foot cast in a plaster…pretty unimaginable…and whenever she is back in the city she has a rocking social schedule…cast in this scene is pretty pretty unimaginable…… right!!!

I rushed to see her as soon as I could and she didn’t care enough how much it hurt, not word about her pain , just a bit about how it all happened…what she was most worried about was that what  will she wear all through as the cast would limit her fashion options…..we women will be women after all…..right….hugs and chats later yours truly and she decided to put together a fashion post, How to be Fashionable with a Cast on your foot.…. I styled her and she was my muse for that day….

While you cannot put Urvashi down or out for long, she has been hopping all over house on one leg and making sure she attends as many lunches and soirees she can within the complex….she is working as diligently as ever..her bedroom has become her office and all her meetings are on Skype ….she definitely has a spirit so wonderful that you are nothing but inspired….

Besides being this strong, confident and well travelled girl she is also so fond of everything that spells fashion and style….and when you have your truly for a friend it goes without saying that we had to have some fashion fun …and also prove a point that ….that cast should not limit you to not play dress up and have fun….I raided her closet one evening and styled these looks…Her Husband Saurav joined in the fun..helped me with the pictures and we almost ended up competing with each other as to who got the better shots….here goes….the shots!!

 

Look 1: Urvashi has lovely hair, God Hair Spa(ed) and Ironed her hair…she has fine highlights and loves that they have grown in length now, keeps her hair open always with a side parting and side bangs… so I decided to keep it open but opted for a middle parting for her, neatly pinned at the back , it made her look a different and she loved it….we chose a shimmery dress that she had ordered online (that’s what she has been doing these days….shopping online like all stores are going to run out of clothes by the time the cast comes out…he hehehe ),which was easy to slide on without her being bothered about the foot… raided her accessory bag , found these fun big earrings in red and dull gold, and we were ready to rock the first look….she had such happy gleam in her eyes doing this….for you all to see…

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Look 2 : Next on was her chevron print long skirt, which she told me she always wears like a dress..how very creative of her…so it was worn like a dress (also that with a cast on she wouldn’t be able to wear a long skirt which would have bothered her in walking and could have caused a stumble had it got stuck under her foot), I tied her hair in a fun hairstyle , changed the liner to winged , a lot of blush later….here we have ….see she is enjoying it all…

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Look 3: She doesn’t wear buns….so I had to had to make her wear a messy bun which she absolutely loved, added a bunstick for a little fun..took a chunky chain necklace and wrapped it like a bracelet around her wrists…voila she was ready to get pictures done….she was already perfecting her poses by now… for you to see…

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Look 4: Military Green , cinched waist with metallic gold belt …messy hair…vintage earrings….do I even need to even say any more…..here goes….

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Look 5: Pair of white summer shorts…they were a little too long for my liking…so I folded it couple of times and voila we had the length I wanted for her….a tank and a summer jacket on …paired with a stash of bangles with her hair tied in a side braid….and she was ready to rock the look….

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….next time you know someone who has fractured their foot direct them to this post ….even better have a fun girly time with them trying out all the things they can wear then….borrow style tips from here any day…..in case of any style queries you can always write to me at [email protected]

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How I Styled Linen Pants on a hot Summer Day

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How I styled Linen Pants on a hot summer day….well it does have a story to it… I have been a cotton and linen fan for  god many years, I can pretty much live in these fabrics, these fabrics add their own unique character to the garment and  I do love the fact the garment breathes….hey no no…do not imagine nostrils on a linen garment next time you see it…..hhahahaha…It is just such a cool fabric, just apt for a hot day….

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What can I say that would describe my really cool Linen Pants …… well if I may…comfortable, comfortable , comfortable… taking cue from a popular movie I figured out if you you insist thrice it sort of triples the stress and Impact of what you mean to say…doesn’t really need a physicist to figure that out….all you need to be is a movie buff… don’t you agree movies have educated us more than our school teachers…heheheehe…I guess the moving pictures make understanding a whole lot more easy…no no this post isn’t about movies or an essay on how linen has been used in the Hindi Cinema …this is about How I Styled Linen Pants on a Hot Summer Day...see I have already repeated it twice, one more time and you shall get it…how…..!!!!

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If you  still haven’t figured that out…I am such a linen fan. I have been sourcing and getting customised linen garments made for a long long while as I wouldn’t find them in the stores off the shelfs, I love the fact that fashion world has taken fancy to linen like never before,I can find some great linen basics in stores now, which I absolutely am enjoying these days . Now that they are also available in the stores It also means that I do not have to hunt for linen fabrics and get my clothes customized for a change,( not that I have stopped doing that) I love that fact that my boutique lady listens to all my crazy ideas and understands my designs and replicates them on the fabrics I keep sourcing from all over. My mom is my partner in crime forever on lookout for the fabrics for me…that’s for another day another story…..

I found these lovely Flared Linen Pants in Delhi,  my trip to Delhi is oh so incomplete without raiding the export surplus stores, when I chanced upon these and that too in linen and a lovely shade of green, I hit the shopping  jackpot. Oh I just love shopping in Delhi, it is always fun to shop in this city, so full of fun stuff to be found and mixed and matched with and so many clothes that I cannot find in Mumbai.

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I had to be out that day in the sun, and it was really really hot, I took my new pants, my Banana Republic  Tank ,  Forever 21 Tan Coloured Heels and my Favourite Cotton Scarf and I was all dressed to beat the Delhi heat…..Here we go …some fun photos from the day follow, before that a tip, get your self flared pants in Linen, they are the new basic must haves, try and get in a colour that you can team with a whole lot coloured tops….in case of any style queries you van write to me at [email protected].

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Photo Credits : Rahul

Linen Pants: Surplus Store, Tank Top: Banana Republic, Scarf: Surplus Store, Watch : Fossil, Heels: Forever21

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